iPhone and iPad competitors could benefit from Jobs's resignation

Apple’s iPhone and iPad competitors could benefit with Steve Jobs out as CEO of Apple. “It’s going to give competitors a bit more of a lease of life to go out and compete harder,” Nomura International Plc. technology analyst Richard Windsor told Bloomberg, which noted that Sony and Nokia’s stock prices jumped after Jobs’ announcement. “It’s been thought about, talked about endlessly for the past several years that Tim Cook would probably take over so while you get an initial knee-jerk reaction on the downside, we would probably expect that not to last very long.” Apple will also need to maintain the momentum and market lead that Steve Jobs created as CEO. “If the new management team doesn’t sustain the level of innovation that Steve Jobs spearheaded, it’s going to be an opportunity for the competition in the long term,” Korea Investment Management Co. fund manager Lee Young Seog said. “Still, because of Tim Cook’s competence and the system at Apple, the competitive landscape isn’t likely to change anytime soon.” Steve Jobs announced his resignation from his CEO post on Wednesday and he will be replaced by Tim Cook, who has effectively been running the company while Jobs has been on leave. “Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it,” Jobs said in his resignation letter on Wednesday.

That thing is the shittiest piece of shit that a company has ever shit out.

The Touchpad is better.

Anonymous

lol i have a touchpad its not that great.

http://mitchs.posterous.com Mitch Samuels

I know, its bad, but the playbook is worse.

Stiuck In Denial

Goodness me QNX. If you believe that I think you may be less well than Mr Jobs.

His Shadow

How’d that work out? 200k shipped, not even sold. More iPads are sold in a day than RIM shipped in a quarter. The writing is on the wall.

Anonymous

ί got an iPad 2-(32GB) for $ 23.87 and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $ 38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $ 657 which only cost me $ 62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, http://to.ly/b0Fg

Um… duh? Do you really need to have five stories on the front page about Steve Jobs retirement at all times or something? Lay off it.

Bob

Is today national apple day?

http://twitter.com/gnomehole The Gnome

Good luck with that…. if a company needs Jobs to leave before they can become competitive they already lost.

Robes1

This article is bullshit!!! How is that gonna make them make better products?! Do you think that Steve was in the lab at Google giving them bad ideas?! LOL! This is so stupid!!!

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CZLGT33THY7YZA3NHUCJJA7LGU haloguy628

In related story it has became known that Steve Jobs was shouting “iPad 3 for pancreas” on top of his lungs after leaving resignation meeting.

Haha

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DIE JOBS DIE

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DONT GET BETTER JUST GET MORE AND MORE SICK UNTIL YOU KICK THE BUCKET

ONCE DEAD I WILL DO MY HAPPY DANCE

DIE JOBS DIE

JUST FUCKING DIE

DONT GET BETTER JUST GET MORE AND MORE SICK UNTIL YOU KICK THE BUCKET

ONCE DEAD I WILL DO MY HAPPY DANCE

DIE JOBS DIE

JUST FUCKING DIE

DONT GET BETTER JUST GET MORE AND MORE SICK UNTIL YOU KICK THE BUCKET

ONCE DEAD I WILL DO MY HAPPY DANCE

DIE JOBS DIE

JUST FUCKING DIE

DONT GET BETTER JUST GET MORE AND MORE SICK UNTIL YOU KICK THE BUCKET

ONCE DEAD I WILL DO MY HAPPY DANCE

DIE JOBS DIE

JUST FUCKING DIE

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Anonymous

Hows that going to stop APPLE from suing every company that have a ANDROID device or a Ipod touch Mp3 like device?

Anonymous

How are they going to benefit? If they were making shitty products before they are going to be better now because sj has a different role at apple? Ya that makes sense. Sigh…

Anonymous

Here’s all the education you need to become an analyst. If x is not greater than y, then y is probably greater than x.

Example:
If Apple doesn’t do well against competitors, then competitors will do better than Apple.
If the job market doesn’t improve, then it will probably get a lot worse.
If RIM’s stock can’t get above $30, it will drop below $25.
If people switch from laptops to tablets, then tablet growth will be better than laptop growth.

Once you have been blessed with this level of Harvard education, you throw on a suit and schedule interviews with CNBC and Bloomberg. Here’s my analysis for today. If you flip that coin it will land on “tails”, unless it can overcome the challenge of landing on “heads”.